This news broke at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15 when the CEO of IMAX, Rich Gelfond, made the announcement.

In an exclusive interview at the Shanghai International Film Festival, Imax CEO Rich Gelfond revealed three major Chinese productions filmed with Imax cameras set to dominate the summer slate.

So, this will be the first film ever, at least filmed 100%, with Imax cameras.” The movie that comes to the closest to being entirely shot in Imax was Nolan’s seven-time Oscar winner Oppenheimer.

Talking at the Cannes Film Festival, Gelfond said that, in the run-up to The Odyssey’ s shoot, Nolan had asked IMAX to find a way to improve their cameras, which are notoriously big and heavy.

And that’s what we’re doing,” IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond revealed to members of the press at the Cannes Film Festival. “He forced us to rethink that side of our business, our film recorders ...

IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond revealed this during the Cannes Film Festival. “Chris called me up and said, ‘If you can figure out how to solve the problems, I will make [Odyssey] 100 percent in Imax.’ ...

The film is slated to hit theaters in July 2026, but in an unconventional move, IMAX tickets for “The Odyssey” went on sale on Thursday morning, one year before the film’s release.

IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond made the announcement during the company's annual press lunch at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 15, according to The Hollywood Reporter and The Wrap.

Richard Gelfond, chief executive officer of Imax Corp., speaks at the China's Film Industry in the era of Globalization as part of the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival at Crowne Plaza on ...

After 'Oppenheimer,' the big-screen company designed new cameras and production tech to allow Nolan to shoot in Imax, on film, end-to-end in his upcoming epic, and not just for select sequences.